Marvel and Netflix team up to fight the forces of not having superheroes everywhere with four new shows

Forming a super-team of the kind that media fanboys only dreamed of in their speculative fiction, Marvel and Netflix have joined forces to produce four original live-action series, a partnership that promises to safeguard the world against the threats of not having superheroes on every single entertainment platform and maybe going outside sometimes. The dynamically profitable duo will vanquish these beginning in 2015, with four thirteen-episode series based on Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage—all culminating in a The Defenders “miniseries event,” in which a team of Marvel heroes will once more tentatively assemble, albeit in a way that’s a little less proactively “avenging” and a lot more defensive. (“Oh, I guess M.O.D.O.K. killing everyone is our problem, because The Avengers are too busy with the important stuff…”)

Indeed, it seems some version of this plan has been unfolding for some time, making one wonder what else Marvel has been concocting in its continued quest for domination of all the world’s entertainment platforms—which, really, only has music left. So, probably expect a new album from The Merry Marvel Marching Society pretty soon.